Posted: Jul 02, 2014 12:09 am
by kennyc
Nicko wrote:
kennyc wrote:Meh. You guys gotta weird definition of art. :roll:


Really? What's your definition?

Marcel Duchamp made the argument in 1917 - by submitting a urinal to a sculpture exhibition - that art is just what artists do. The argument has not, AFAIK, been refuted in any real way.

This doesn't mean you have to like a given artwork. You don't have to even justify not liking something; if you don't like it, you don't like it.

It doesn't mean that one cannot critcise a particular artwork on particular grounds. This does require a bit of justification, however.

You have no grounds whatsoever to say that an artwork is "not art". If someone says it's art, it's art.

Of course I do. Every right, particularly when you are attempting to claim that political, linguist, and social interaction is art. That's pure bullshit.